U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson accused Beijing of welcoming instability along America’s southern border and using business incentives to foster economic dependence and disorder in Mexico.
“If Mexico is chaotic, unsecure on the U.S. southern border, China would be happy with that,” Johnson said on Oct. 28 at the Milken Institute’s Global Investors’ Symposium, where senior American officials linked Mexico’s economic development to security and the future of North American trade.
He further alleged that Beijing was willing to provide incentives to businesses even at a financial loss to “create a dependency and create that chaos.”…